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Honestly, is anyone surprised, at this point, that Obama's longtime pastor is casually racist? I thought that was all hashed out pretty clearly during the campaign, notwithstanding the efforts of respectable media outlets to hush it all up. It would have taken a sort of willful obtusity to have missed it. Or, I suppose, a total disengagement from political news.

To everyone who thinks that the far right, and the far left, can be measured by spreading your arms to illustrate the difference, I've got news for you. Political differences are measured by a circle. At the top (12 o'clock) are a right and left agreement. At 3 and 9 o'clock, are the differences. Far left and far right, meet at 6 o'clock. There is not a lick of difference.

So, the wingnuts go berserk when Wight says: "..They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ....".

Because...that's racist.

But when Rush Limbaugh, one of the GOP's primary "leaders" says the following...it isn't?

1. "I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

4. "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

5. "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

6. "They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

7. "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller)."

8. "I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve."

9. "We are being told that we have to hope Obama succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president."

I do find it interesting that so many African Americans are so casually antisemitic. If any of this came out of the mouths of a White person, they would be hounded mercilessly. What makes it almost worse is that it is the Back clergy, from Jesse Jackson, through Al Sharpton, to Jeremiah Wright, who seem to be leading the current wave of Black antisemitism.

Er, no -- I'm pretty sure Jdeeripper is making fun of all the liberals who started screaming RACIST! RACIST! at someone (Bill Clinton? One of Clinton II's proxies? I don't recall) who said "call a spade a spade" during the Democratic primaries.

I do find it interesting that so many African Americans are so casually antisemitic.

Why?

What makes it almost worse is that it is the Back clergy, from Jesse Jackson, through Al Sharpton, to Jeremiah Wright, who seem to be leading the current wave of Black antisemitism.

I'm not exactly plugged into Black youth culture, but Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright are all getting on in years somewhat. I vaguely recall reading about some poll or other suggesting that Black antisemitism is actually well on the decline -- hopefully it is simply the case that Jackson, Sharpton, and Wright are the last gasp of the bigoted generation.

Early in a collection of political speech blunders by Matthew Parris (titled Read My Lips in honor of everyone knows who) is a response by a (now-probably-forgotten) Labour shadow home affairs spokesman named Roy Hattersley to a student making an "anti-racist" speech in 2003:

"I believe in calling a spade a spade."

jdeeripper calls it in the first comment, fergodssakes. Isn't it a little, well, odd for Jeremiah Wright, of all people, not to know what "spade" means colloquially?

It's completely hilarious that Jeremy missed the antisemitic comment and focused on jdeeripper's comment to supposedly bash righties over hypocrisy. He probably didn't even notice it, given the antisemitism that permeates the left. Most likely, he agrees with it. Homophobic and antisemitic - Jeremy really is Pat Buchanan.

Henry - "He probably didn't even notice it, given the antisemitism that permeates the left."

Right.

It's those damn liberals who are anti-Semites and racists.

And, as for my Rush Limbaugh racist posting: You do realize he IS the leader of the GOP...at least according to the polling of Republicans today...and I would think Republicans would be more concerned about racism from their "leader" than Wright.

"Isn't it a little, well, odd for Jeremiah Wright, of all people, not to know what "spade" means colloquially?"

It may also be that Wright, who's clearly not a dumb guy by any measure, could be expressing a little discontent over the way he was treated by candidate Obama (he's still trying to get the bus-axle grease off his good Sunday suit, I hear), and is by the "spade" comment subtly calling attention to the fact that Obama is in fact half-white.

The comment attributed to Limbaugh about James Earl Ray has been debunked. Most of those quotes seem out of character for Limbaugh.http://newsbusters.org/blogs/d-s-hube/2009/06/04/maddow-slimes-limbaugh-phony-quote

"I hate Limbaugh as much as any Liberal but did he really say that about James Earl Ray? That one seems a bit more outlandish than usual."

I doubt that any of Jeremy's quotes mean what he thinks they mean. Rush tends to say outrageous things to illustrate something else. If he seriously denigrated the Medal of Honor like that, his listeners would crucify him.

"The comment attributed to Limbaugh about James Earl Ray has been debunked.Most of those quotes seem out of character for Limbaugh.http://newsbusters.org/blogs/d-s-hube/2009/06/04/maddow-slimes-limbaugh-phony-quote"

"Jeremy, I hate Limbaugh as much as any Liberal but did he really say that about James Earl Ray? That one seems a bit more outlandish than usual."

Rush did not say those things, as a five second google will attest. Jeremy is a buffon who mindlessly repeats any nonsense he finds appealing. Not very different from the people who think the "Protocols of The Elders Of Zion" are true.

Jeremy, you are an IDIOT. No use being polite with your kind. I read those quotes on Limbaugh and they seemed fictional on first reading. So who do you source for these quotes? A rapper on Blackplanet.com??? And where are his sources? Oh, wait, he doesn't have any! Go back under the rock you crawled from you intellectual midget.

And maybe instead of using the term "Joooos" which in itself is rather anti-Semitic, you can take a shot using the actual term..

Nice attempt at deflection but that's ok. Joooos is a parody of those, like Wright, who think they control everything from the media, Hollywood, financial institutions and yes, your precious President Obama who can't even talk to Wright without an ok from AIPAC.

Look at the ObaM-orons unable to accept that they adore a man whose "faith" is nothing but a black nationalist, Jew-hating LEFT version of the KKK.

Facts are that Leftists like Jeremy and Jurist Dentist are perfect representatives of the HYPOCRITES and LIARS which make up today's LEFT and if they were capable of shame or remorse they would never show their face when the subject of the ugly anti-semitism of Obama "spiritual advisor" came up.

No amount of distraction toward Limbaugh or anyone else is going to absolve you nutjobs from the facts that you elected a man as president who worships at the feet of a full-blown racist and anti-semite.

For context, Rev Wright was in Chicago when Jews there had a few articles published last December quoting them as revelling in the number of Chicago area Jews going to the White House, and calling Obama "Our First Jewish President" - While black leaders there and in other states said they were not getting their due of appointments - after Obama got 96% of the black vote - again..(What a surprise in the Democrat Party! You would think one day blacks would learn they are taken for granted except when elections approach and they are marched to the Plantation and forgotten the day after.)

As FLS posted, the list of Jews is long. It covers 4 of 6 top White House people controlling access to Obama, plus Chief of Staffs for VP Biden and the 1st Lady.

Except for Holder and Valerie Garrett, blacks were shut out of senior policy-making positions. Another bone of contention for Chicago blacks after Jews said they were the big winners of the key positions..

FLS - Monica Sutphen is a biracial, halakhic Jew, by the way.

David Axelrod (2009- ) Senior Advisor to the President Jared Bernstein (2009- ) Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President Rahm Emanuel (2009- ) Chief of StaffPete Rouse (2009-) Senior Advisor to the President Lee Feinstein (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor Gary Gensler (2009- ) Chair of the Commody Futures Trading Commission Elena Kagan (2009- ) Solicitor General of the United States Ronald Klain (2009- ) Chief of Staff to the Vice President Jack Lew (2009- ) Deputy Secretary of State Eric Lynn (2009- ) Middle East Policy Advisor Peter Orszag (2009- ) Director of the Office of Management and Budget Dennis Ross (2009- ) Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State Mara Rudman (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor Mary Schapiro (2009- ) Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission Dan Shapiro (2009- ) Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council James B. Steinberg (2009- ) Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Summers (2009- ) Director National Economic Council Mona Sutphen (2009- ) Deputy White House Chief of StaffSusan S Sher,(2009 -), named new Chief of Staff for the First Lady..

When one group controls access to the President, sets and they are from an identifiable population - they tend to get called such (those Germans with their Berlin Wall shielding Nixon), those Georgian peanut Mafioso..Dubya had "those Texan Christians and 'Bush Family retainers" shielding him - plus Rice...

Obama is also known in Chicago to owe "big favors" to the ethnic Jewish - Crown, Pritzker, and Klutznik families who were he and Michelle's wealthy patrons (and Valerie Garretts) for 20 years. Along with Abner Mikva. And who also got some very good deals for high-paying part-time work for both the Obamas at U of Chicago..which had the Crowns and Pritzkers running the Board of Trustees and seating past protege Garrett as a director..

Could it just be possible that there are a large number of Jews in high positions in the Obama administration because there is a large pool of talented, highly educated and accomplished Jews in this country? American Jews, like Asian Americans, have aspired high, worked hard and been wonderfully successful. They were so talented and successful that the gentiles first circled the wagons to keep them out, and then embraced them because their talent was needed.

It's not just a Democratic/Liberal thing either. Remember that guy Kissinger.

Jews have an influence in this country disproportionate to their numbers because they have earned it on merit. No more, and no less.

"Rev. Wright’s comments were not only wrong, but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity, racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve problems that confront us all." - Candidate BHO.

Sadly, after reading all of the above comments, I think Rev. Wright has a much better feel for the country than the president does.

Sadly, after reading all of the above comments, I think Rev. Wright has a much better feel for the country than the president does.

I don't. Rather, for the most part, the Jews seem to have mostly disappeared into White society in the last 40 years. Not complete, no, but significantly.

For example, my parents, WASP to the core, had no close Jewish friends, and knew few Jews at all. And, despite trying to be politically correct, still bought into the stereotypes. I grew up in that environment, but ended up with a lot of Jewish friends from my fraternity in college (and since then). But then, my kid doesn't know the difference between Protestant, Jewish, or Roman Catholic. I would ask if a Samuel Goldsomething were Jewish, and the answer would be: What?

I really do believe that much of America has become almost insensitive to whether someone is Jewish or not since the end of WWII. And the poster above may be right that the Black community is going in the same direction, and that those antisemitic Black clergy are a holdover from a previous era.

Jeremiah Wright served a very useful purpose to Obama in the arc of his amazing political career. He expects to be welcomed to the White House, because face it, without him Obama might still be a hapless community activist. He doesn't accept being tossed -- what is that phrase I hate that's so popular? -- under the bus, and he's pulling his usual schtick to draw attention back to himself. Congratulations. It worked, the schmuck.

All this right / left argumentation is so wearisome I could hurl, so I skip it. You keep digging your ruts so deeply you'll never dig out, and it displays a simplistic rudimentary calculus that marks one a dullard.

What the world is facing in the anti-Jewish hate today is deeply rooted in Pride of people who feel they KNOW a truth that no one but them is important enough to know. The Mohammedan Boys have it. The KKK boys have it. The French and many once Catholic countries have it. The English ruling classes have it. Henry Ford had it. Joe Stalin had it. The John Birchers have it. It is only restrained when it is socially ostracized. This is one pride that is guaranteed to go before destruction, but it is oh so seductive to people who have pride in their superior intellects, Ergo the Progressive wing of todays Democrats has it, which I suspect includes the President and his wife. But remember that whatever they succeed in doing to destroy and kill the Jews will happen to the Jewish sect called Christians next.

My, my, my. Aren't we all opposed to one another and common sense. Mr. Washington pointed out the evil of party politics and here we see why. Everyone is contentedly arguing which side is more racist-the right or the left when the real question should be why is a "Christian" minister making such comments? Why would there be a need for anyone to make such comments about a presidential candidate in the United States of America? Aren't we better than that?

The Von Brunn shooting was a terrorist act and a horrible crime. His victim was a hero and I pray for him and his family. Von Brunn in no way represents my views, any more than scum like Fred Phelps represents view of most Christians. But I know that Charles Johnson and other mendacious individuals on the left will use the opportunity to blame this act on right wing extremism. Von Brunn was wearing a confederate hat wasn’t he?

But the Reverend Wright (why doesn’t Wright count as a Christianist to Sullivan?) gives another example of Jew hatred, with his rant today.

Granted Wright is not a criminal or a murderer. Wright just mentions that Israelis are engaged in ethnic cleansing in Gaza. That is true. The Israeli Defense Forces did do ethnic cleansing in Gaza, they evicted several thousand Jooooooooooz so the Palestinians could have their ethnically pure Shangra la. How has that turned out?

So let’s question President Obama about anti Semitism. Obviously Von Brunn is a violent murderer beyond the pale for any rational person, but Wright’s comments are not acceptable are they? Ask if it is true Barack Obama told Israel it cannot bomb Iran. If Von Brunn can kill a single person, what stops Iran from killing millions? These are all legitmate questions. I would suggest we start asking them now.

I had no idea that Axelrod was of the Tribe. Everyone knows about Rahm.

Anyway, most of those listed, with a few exceptions like Ross, are democrats/progressives more than they are Jews, and moreover are democrats/progressives more than they are Americans. The first bit is, I suppose, a sign of assimilation, the latter a sign of the sickness on the left that makes them think it is worth helping America's enemies to win an election. Oh sorry, Syria isn't an enemy - it's just a friend we haven't hugged yet. And the Logan Act was apparently repealed on the Q T.

The fact that so many prominent members of the left side of the Dems, plus other historical lefties, are Jews does give C4 and his ilk a lot of ammo, unfortunately. I suppose that Jews have historically gravitated to extreme/revolutionary politics as a result of exclusion from the mainstream, but now it frankly looks churlish given widespread acceptance in American society. Some are also too dumb to realize that the Code Pinko zealot they are marching with today will be cheering Achmedimadinnerjacket's nuking of Israel tomorrow.

The presence of so many Jews working closely with Obama demonstrates that however anti-Semitic Wright may have been over twenty years, it didn't rub off on Obama.

I suspect you're right about Obama not being anti-semitic -- I think his long years listening to Wright's ravings were a cynical ploy for ethnic credibility rather than anything done out of conviction. But the fact that many Jewish people work for him doesn't actually demonstrate anything of the kind. Nixon, for example, was anti-Semitic (or at least, comes off that way, rather, if you listen to all the anti-Semitic slurs on those tapes), but worked closely during his presidency with Kissinger and other Jews (e.g. Murray Chotiner, Herbert Stein, and William Safire). Having lots of Jewish aides and assistants really doesn't mean much in that regard.

Synova, I agree. Archie was my dad. I've got some Archie in me. And some Meathead. I liked that about the show and its production - it's weird, at least to me, that we were so divided at that time, with the war, the painful movement out of Jim Crow, the beginnings of the women's movement, and the so-called generation gap, and yet there was much more of a feeling that we're all Americans, in it together, deserving of both criticism and embrace. Not to put a naive cast on it; this was also right after we experienced a series of political assassinations and anti-war, domestic terrorism. But can you imagine network TV now, creating humor and pathos out of that culture?

"Jews have an influence in this country disproportionate to their numbers because they have earned it on merit."

That is exactly C-fudd's problem with Jews. He sits embittered and lonely in his flophouse room, beating himself off to sleep and refusing to recognize what a loser he is, so he blames everything on da Joooos.

My lord. I've had the opportunity and/or inclination to read this blog every day for the past couple weeks, and while I dislike personal attacks, I am compelled to say that whether I agree or disagree with Jeremy on any particular point, he is always a childish little dweeb.

I ask you all once again how a man can sit in a church on Sundays for 20 years, listen to rants of "God damn America!" and, "Damn Jews", for there were just as many of the latter as the former, and not absorb some of it or at least share some of the underlying belief that causes a person to say such things.

Saying President Obama is not anti-Semitic because he has a number of Jews working for him reminds me so much of the cliche repeated by white racists claiming they couldn't be because they had black friends.

And the Muslim that murdered the Marine at the recruiting center? He claims he was getting revenge for abuses like the Koran being flushed down the toilet, as reported by Newsweek. Which never happened.